Figure Drawing: September 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

How to Draw People - Harriet "Petey" Weaver

Body Proportions

Harriet "Petey" Weaver published a book titled Cartooning Plus Good Drawing in 1939.

She must also be the same person who was at the time the first woman ranger in the California Division of Parks. She authored a book about the parks, THEM WERE THE DAYS Early Days at Big Basin, Richardson Grove, Seacliff Beach & Big Sur by Harriett "Petey" Weaver, CSPRA's Honorary Ranger 1971. There is a film, FIRELIGHT SONG, being developed about her.

Here is a cartoon by Harriet "Petey" Weaver of the Park Service which shows a view of the Big Basin Redwood Park in California which seems to prove by its style that they are one and the same.

Analysis of Form

Construction of the Head

Facial Expression

Problems of Characterization

Cartooning Plus Good Drawing at Amazon.com,
Another copy Cartooning plus good drawing,

Her work as a cartoonist is mentioned in Women and the Comics by Trina Robbins and Catherine Yronwode

Other cartoon books include:
Weaver, Harriett E. ["Petey"]. Cartooning Sports. Worcester, MA: Davis Press, 1949.

Other examples of her work:
How to Draw Action
How to Draw Heads

How to draw cartoons at Figure-Drawings.com:

The Course of Cartooning - By Raye Burns

The All American Art of Cartooning - By Bert Cholet

Amazon cartooning books.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Johann Daniel Preissler

A drawing by Johann Daniel Preissler is up for auction at Ketterer-Kunst.

Johann Daniel Preissler, Zugeschrieben - Männlicher Akt, Sanguine around 1700

Another post: How to Draw People - Johann Daniel Preissler.

The same auctioneer recently sold a copy of Die durch Theorie erfundene Practic.

Books that reference Johann Daniel Preissler:

Der ideale Kunstkörper

Kunstkammer, Laboratorium, Buhne: Schauplatze Des Wissens Im 17. Jahrhundert (German Edition)

The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body: and Lessons on Foreshortening

Saturday, September 19, 2009

The Art of Drawing The Figure - Bill Buchman

Bill Buchman will be giving a one day workshop in Pasadena on the 18th of October at the Learning and Product Expo http://www.learningproductexpo.com/pas/splash.html at the Pasadena Conference Center with a beautiful model.

Bill Buchman sent me a copy of the DVD that he made. He demonstrates a variety of techniques for drawing the figure. He shows how to approach drawings from line, forms, curves, outlines, negative space and includes the use of many media.

He does this by showing a model in a pose, then shows how he draws the model using each of the techniques. The camera looks over his shoulder as he draws and shows occasional closeups.

He has done a lot of drawing and thought about it and he brings all his experience to the DVD. He is currently working on a book.

What you will get out of looking at this DVD is not only an understanding of different approaches to figure drawing but more importantly he demonstrates that drawing the figure is great fun.

Here is the DVD at Amazon.com - The Art of Drawing The Figure: Essential Exercises [Interactive DVD]

Here is a list of the lessons:

1. Quick Stick FIgure Conte.

2. Quick Stick Figure Ink.

3.Ghostly Approach.

4.Ghostly Approach and Contours.

5. Direction.

6. Continuous Line Essense.

7. Flowing Side Stokes with Overlapping Contours.

8. Flowing Intersecting Contours.

9. Flowing Overlapping Contours.

10. Negative Space Gesture.

11. Simplified Abstract Shapes.

12. Simple Abstract Shapes, Semi-reclining Poses.

13. Elliptical Motion.

14. Fast Gesture.

15. Blind (seeing) Contour.

16. Loop De Loop.

17. All Straight Lines.

18. Pen and Wash.

19. Thin Lines, Thick Lines.

20. Thick Brush Line, Big Shapes.

21. Abstract Effect.

22. Continuous Line Gesture.

23. Fluid Overlapping Contours.

24. One Warm, One Cool Color.

25. Mass and Line.